'Media hype' instead of jobs for all graduates
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Both the president and the prime minister boast that they will provide jobs to all unemployed graduates, but they did a media hype yesterday (20) by giving jobs to only 4,100 graduates, the association of unemployed graduates.

Their promise to provide jobs for all graduates has suffered the same fate of their other promises to the people, the association charges.

Under the present and the previous regimes, more than 58,000 graduates remain without jobs for six years now, it says.

The association says the government promised at talks to recruit 20,000 graduates on June 01 for one year training.

In the end, it recruited 4,100 only, setting aside the 21,300 vacancies in the ministries, it adds.

The association demands the government provides jobs for all the graduates as teachers and development officers.

Some of the jobless graduates have given vent to their feelings in facebook postings: